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South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s

By Jacinta Delhaize, Lecturer, University of Cape Town
You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them.

As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a supermassive…The Conversation


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